Summary: Voldemort has been defeated. Neville Longbottom has a comfortable life teaching at Hogwarts with all his friends, yet he is missing something in his life. Then he meets Aurora Hitchcock, owner of a Potions shop in Hogsmeade Village. Together they frantically work on an ancient potion for protection from a devastating spell, in the shadow of a rising threat. Before they can discover the unknown enemy, someone from Aurora’s past returns. What will happen when ancient Potions meet modern Herbology?

This story has wonderful, wonderful characters, and I love how the plot between them all is developing. However, dialogue/monologue like "Becoming Deputy Headmaster would definitely put me on the path to happiness” only weakens your wonderful story. "The path to happiness" is nondescriptive and super-trite - and this story is too good to get bogged down in triteness. Triteness is for people with no imagination, and you are clearly not one of those people!! Please resist the temptation to use unhelpful language like that - your story and your readers will only benefit.

Thank you and keep up the delicious storytelling!!

Author's Response: Thank you for your honesty. As my betas keep telling me, my writing is improving, so I do hope that you\'ll see a difference in the later chapters. Thanks for the review. :)

The logical place to begin a story is at the point of the first decision. But what if there were no decisions? What if, at every point, there was only one possible act? What if the story simply cannot be told?

Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you for a new chapter! This is such good writing - and all your facts are accurate, down to the incongruous vicar. Also, you are telling the story on a small level: small details that make the story live. Most fic writers (I find) forget to do that, focusing instead either on summarizing canon (boring) or plot twists and turns (boring if the characters aren't brought out). You have not ever succumbed to any of that. You have the lightest and most loving hand with this world/characters/set of events that I have ever encountered, and I only wish - well, two things: one, that you'd write more faster, and two, that you'd write your very own copyrighted publishable stuff. I would snap it up and buy copies for all my friends. You are a wizard with text!!!!!

Oh, VV, you have done it again. You do it every time. You are amazing. It is the tiny, tiny details, the tiny thoughts of Severus' mind, that make your story so savor-able. Mmm. I savor every chapter of every story - and, I must admit, I have reread several chapters of this one, just to taste them again!!!

You rock my world. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE write a book. I know it takes money to hide away & write - but please find a way to do it!!!!!!!!

(I also realize that it is nothing short of EVIL to use multiple exclamation points. But surely there is a loophole for Muppets, and people like them. I am very Muppety ... so perhaps you will forgive the prolif. of punctuaysh.???) [a little phoneticness there ... just feeling whimsical ... sorry!]

Summary: Sequel to A Stolen Past. Please read that story first, as this one really won’t make sense if you don’t.

Harry Potter has rejoined the Wizarding world after a year-long absence, but still has no memory of his time at Hogwarts. Will he ever get his memory back? Will he be able to pass his classes without it? And most importantly, will he ever be able to defeat Lord Voldemort? Read on as the last of the mysteries introduced in A Stolen Past are finally revealed.

This is a story of friendship and mystery, with a healthy dose of H/G thrown in for good measure.

Such good dialogue! I can hear two boys saying things like this to each other, I really can. Especially Tyler being so stoked about being abused by magic - so adolescent-male. Wonderful job!!

Author's Response: Thanks! Having been a teenaged boy myself not too terribly long ago, I still remember the sorts of things they would say. And you\'re right: Tyler\'s reaction to magic is VERY adolescent male. Excellent way to put it.

In mid-seventeenth century England, when witch hunts were the in thing to do, Richard Potter begins to hear whispers that a “Witch Finder General” is heading towards the small village where he and his family live. Of course, he can easily protect the people who ARE “guilty” of witchcraft (his family and the cantankerous old Widow Thompson), but what about the innocent Muggle villagers who will most likely be accused because they happen to talk to their cat? Who will protect them?

THAT WAS BRILLIANT. Are you quite sure you're as young as you claim?? Sorry, not to be ageist, but DAMN that's some good writing. All your fics are wonderfully well-written - and funny - and totally in character for the canon characters - and completely engaging. I'm a fan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Author's Response: Wow, thank you. I\'m definitely fifteen, I swear. And about nine months. I guess I\'ve just had a lot of practise! Thanks so much, I\'m glad you\'re a fan of my writing! And also that you chose this one to review, since it\'s the neediest ... Thanks very much, that really made my night!

As ever, Ms. VV, you have outdone everyone. You make these people live. Action verbs, grammar that only enhances the story (instead of hampering my reading by calling attention to itself), and not a "seems" or "seemingly" (banes of fanfic!) in sight. I LOVE your writing. Please Please Please write some of your own stuff so that I may SPEND MONEY ON IT and buy it for everyone I know!!!!!

Summary: Lillian Howell, sixth year Ravenclaw, is one of Hogwarts' entrants in the Triwizard tournament. She travels to Durmstrang to face conundrums, explore new friendships, and dare that biggest mystery of all -- boys!
This was an entry in the Triwizard challenge by Vindictus Viridian of Ravenclaw House. Everything and a hamster Animagus may occur within these screens.

Perfect, perfect, so beautiful. What an engaging person Lillian is - I wish I could hang out with her. This is, by the way, the *entire* reason I read fiction (inhale fiction, drown myself in fiction - whatever): to meet people I want to know. Jamie and Claire in OUTLANDER, Althea in the LIVESHIP books, Anita Blake in the ANITA BLAKE: VAMPIRE HUNTER books (though she does not write as well as you do!). Thank you for creating more persons I want to keep in my life!!